Fall (Halliard, haliard, halyard) [Fall] är i allmänhet hvarje tåg, afsedt att hissa segel med såsom märsefall (topsail haliard) [Mars fall], bramfall (topgallant halyard) [Bramfall], klofall och pikefall (throat and peak halliards) [Klau- und Piekfall], hvarmed en gaffel hissas, klyfversfall (jib halyard) [Kjäverfall], underledsegels inra fall (lower studdingsail inner halliard) [Unterleesegel Innenfall] o. s. v.
Fall brukas äfven om linor att hissa annat med än segel, såsom flagglina = sejnfall (signal- or ensign-halliard) [Flaggenfall].
Fall, det tåg eller den ta ja, varmed ett segel hissas.
HALLIARDS, HALYARDS, OR HAULYARDS. The ropes or tackles usually employed to hoist or lower any sail upon its respective yards, gaffs, or stay, except the cross-jack and spritsail-yard, which are always slung; but in small craft the spritsail-yard also has halliards. ( See JEERS.)
JEERS. Answer the same purpose to the main-sail, fore-sail, and mizen, as halliards do to all inferior sails. The tye, a sort of runner, or thick rope, is the upper part of the jeers. Also, an assemblage of strong tackles by which the lower yards are hoisted up along the mast, or lowered down, as occasion requires; the former of which operations is called swaying, and the latter striking (both of which see).
Halliards. Ropes by which sails, yards, flags, gaffs, etc., are hoisted.